• IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    TRUE STORY: I was rebuilding a deck over sandy soil and-having seen this meme before- I mentioned to the homeowner doing the same thing. We chuckled.

    A week later I got a call asking if I actually did that. “No, why?”…“because we were planting a tree and dug up human bones.” WTF?!

    Yes, indeed, they had. Turns out this was the site of a great battle a couple hundred years ago and all the bodies were just lightly sanded over. It was a big issue when a shopping center was built, and all remains were gathered and reinterred in a gated spit in the parking lot.

    • When my ex and I were looking at the house we bought, on our first walkthrough, I noticed the space between two rooms didn’t add up, and there must be hidden space behind the paneling in one room. Our agent joked that maybe there’s a dead body stashed in there.

      Fast forward a year, he writes a short novel about a real estate agent who finds a dead body in a house during a walkthrough.

      Still can’t get over that.